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Re: Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

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Post by cestith »

neilv wrote: post #94
whilenot-dev wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interestingly, these exact letters appear to have been removed in the photo after the first two paragraphs: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/2026/02/apple-accelera... EDIT: a screenshot from the video: https://imgur.com/a/X3t4crC

Apple PR did what they could with the art they had available and the need to pander to a gov't administration, but weren't inspired to do it more genuinely? "Think Different" -> "Think Indifferent"

Well, they’re dealing with an administration indifferent to thinking. Everything is emotional.

Re: Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

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Post by CursedSilicon »

nessbot wrote: post #68
CursedSilicon wrote: post #58

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Not without a big beautiful bribe [1] I assume [1] https://www.theverge.com/news/737757/apple-president-donald-...

Yeah, not denying the bribing. But that doesn't change tax law. It still needsto be passed by congress. Does it affect enforcement, though? maybe

So much of what this admin has done "needed" to be approved by congress. They're complicit in the overreach of power

Re: Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

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Post by gigatexal »

kshacker wrote: post #42
gigatexal wrote: post #39

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This is to appease pumpkin potus and his merry band of idiots Update: For the record I do hate the POTUS. He’s ruined our reputation around the world. Allowed things like USAID to die removing aid from millions leading to many deaths. He’s incompetent and very stupid which will likely get us killed either in some war or in the next pandemic. Tarrifs are a tax. Congress raises taxes. If you support his right to tax wi…

The same thing could be said after polishing with AI and it will be a fact As stated, it is offensive You need to do appeasement as needed. Business is business.

Your ability to rationalize would make you a king in a true failed state where might makes right and appeasement actually works. Stand for something or you’ll fall for anything like justifying the moron in chief.

Re: Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

latexr wrote: post #50
evanjrowley wrote: post #4

Why does the video show them assembling rackmount servers and not the Mac Mini? Is that assembly really in the US? Asking because the woman in the first shot appeared to have Chinese letters on the left side of her uniform.

> Why does the video show them assembling rackmount servers and not the Mac Mini? Because the video is of the workers in that specific factory, and they’ll only start producing the Mac mini there later in the year. It’s in the title. You can’t show real video of something which hasn’t happened yet.

> You can’t show real video of something which hasn’t happened yet.

I have seen exactly that, thanks to AI...

Re: Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

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Post by xienze »

tencentshill wrote: post #105
vsgherzi wrote: post #96

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Just as manufacturing in China took time manufacturing in the US will take time. The US has lost much of its skilled labor and mom and pop parts shop. If we have any hope of re-invigorating this some large company is going to have to bite the bullet. Chicken and egg problem imo. I'll leave whether this is worth it or not up to the economists.

It needs a careful long term approach from real leaders. Not a run-and-gun, corrupt, chaotic president throwing tariffs (taxes) up on a whim.

He’s at least getting companies to pretend like they’re going to try. That’s a starting point. Before, the best you’d get out of these CEOs is “LOL those jobs are never coming back, learn to code or whatever else hasn’t been outsourced fully yet.”

Re: Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

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Post by onlyrealcuzzo »

adamgordonbell wrote: post #84

Apple is very tied to Chinese manufacturing in a way that is hard to replicate in US. They will agree to make some high margin simple to assemble thing in the US to appease government, but if it goes as well as last time, they will stop as soon as they can. In china they were often able to iterate on designs and have custom screws and other parts made and ramped up in very short times. Something about having the whol…

You could prototype assembly in China, then have everything ready to go, and do mass assembly elsewhere.

Re: Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

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Post by doug_durham »

vsgherzi wrote: post #92

Is no one else interested in the "assemble advanced AI servers, including logic boards produced onsite, which are then used in Apple data centers in the U.S." in the pictures? Are they using nvidia GPUS? Their own silicon? Is there any data out there on what these servers are like? I don't think we've ever seen a picture of them before.

I believe it is the nodes for their private compute cloud for inference. They have described these in the past. It's all Apple chips.

Re: Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

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Post by gigatexal »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #41
gigatexal wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is to appease pumpkin potus and his merry band of idiots Update: For the record I do hate the POTUS. He’s ruined our reputation around the world. Allowed things like USAID to die removing aid from millions leading to many deaths. He’s incompetent and very stupid which will likely get us killed either in some war or in the next pandemic. Tarrifs are a tax. Congress raises taxes. If you support his right to tax wi…

So what? Even if you hate who the president is, it is in the best interest of everyone that the president does a good job. Wanting the president to fail and millions to suffer is scorched earth hatred, not strategy.

Business will continue to business. POTUS is a failed businessman many times over who only increased his wealth by whoring himself to our enemies be extorting our allies.

I’m on the right side of history. Are you?

Re: Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

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Post by xuki »

adamgordonbell wrote: post #84

Apple is very tied to Chinese manufacturing in a way that is hard to replicate in US. They will agree to make some high margin simple to assemble thing in the US to appease government, but if it goes as well as last time, they will stop as soon as they can. In china they were often able to iterate on designs and have custom screws and other parts made and ramped up in very short times. Something about having the whol…

Mac mini is a relatively low volume product for Apple, the margin hit would not be consequential to their bottom line. I'll believe it when they start making iPhone in the US.

Re: Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

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Post by apercu »

mgh95 wrote: post #114
apercu wrote: post #106

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Weirdly the first thing I thought was "Why Texas"?

Likely a combination of business-friendly policies (low tax, no employer payroll tax, etc.) and proximity to ports. Houston is the 6th [1] largest port in the USA. [1] https://pangea-network.com/busiest-and-biggest-ports-in-the-...

I agree with you on all of these except: low tax

I grew up in DFW.

My house in WI is assessed at a significantly higher value than my siblings house in Ft Worth.

My 2025 property tax bill ~$5k, my 2025 state income tax - not gonna publish it here but not all that significant.

Sibling in Texas property tax bill: ~$14k. Significantly higher than my state income tax + property tax.

Also, I don't have to live in Texas.

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